Anne Frank ‘posthumously baptised as a Mormon’

Larry Bair, the president of the Mormon temple of Santo Domingo, said he had
looked into the reports but was unable to verify that Frank had been
baptised.

If it did occur, Mr Bair told the AP, “it was a mistake.”

Frank was a Jewish teenager forced into hiding in Amsterdam during the
Holocaust and killed in a concentration camp. Her diary was published in
1947.

Mormons believe the baptism ritual allows deceased people a way to the
afterlife but it offends members of many other religions.

Jews are particularly offended by an attempt to alter the religion of
Holocaust victims, and the baptism of Holocaust survivors was supposed to
have been barred by a 1995 agreement.

The church said it takes “a good deal of deception and manipulation to
get an improper submission through the safeguards we have put in place.”

“While no system is foolproof in preventing the handful of individuals
who are determined to falsify submissions, we are committed to taking action
against individual abusers by suspending the submitter’s access privileges,”
the church said in its statement. “We will also consider whether other
Church disciplinary action should be taken.”

Source: AP

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